Academic and activist perspectives on human rights

Centre for International Governance and Justice: News and Events

The “Aspirational Rituals: Promises and Utopias in Human Rights” workshop, convened last week by Ben Authers under the auspices of Hilary Charlesworth’s Laureate Fellowship, was a great success. Papers by Barnita Bagchi (Utrecht), Michelle Burgis-Kasthala (ANU), Margaret Davies (Flinders), Eliza Garnsey (Cambridge), Ben Golder (UNSW), Rachel Hughes (Melbourne), Robert Leckey (McGill) and Terri Tomsky (Alberta) engaged with the theme of utopias, and the often illusory promises of human rights, from diverse perspectives. A lively conversation developed over the course of the workshop, drawing on legal, political, and literary theory; art criticism; philosophy; and geographies of space and place.

We are looking forward to welcoming Tony Anghie to the Centre next week. Tony is Samuel D. Thurman Professor in the College of Law at the University of Utah. While he is here, Tony will host a masterclass on what it means to be a critical international lawyer.

The Centre is also co-hosting (with ANU’s Centre for International & Public Law), a symposium next week in honour of the brilliant international and constitutional lawyer, Deborah Cass.

Meta

News & Events

Hiding in a cupboard with an esky full of icy poles, a torch and a pile of paperbacks whose contents are a world away from... Read more →

Brazil is in crisis. And once again, the poorest will bear the burden As Brazil faces its worst economic crisis in decades, its government is... Read more →

Wonderful news for Ciara Regarding Rights contributor and former CIGJ Visiting PhD scholar, Ciara O’Connell has successfully defended her doctoral thesis in a viva held at the University of Sussex School of... Read more →